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Do we know what an AD at Notre Dame typically makes?

ponydawg wrote:Do we know what an AD at Notre Dame typically makes?

Apparently the last one made enemies.

It isn't going to come down to money. That being said, I seriously doubt Orsini would make significantly more at ND than he is making now. SMU pays very well. For exaple, Copeland pulled out the NC State AD search when he learned he would have to take a pay cut.

mrydel wrote:

ponydawg wrote:Do we know what an AD at Notre Dame typically makes?

Apparently the last one made enemies.

Boo... Though I must admit that I laughed.

SMU Football Blog wrote:It isn't going to come down to money. That being said, I seriously doubt Orsini would make significantly more at ND than he is making now. SMU pays very well. For exaple, Copeland pulled out the NC State AD search when he learned he would have to take a pay cut.

That may be, but I seriously doubt Notre Dame and NC State have the same kind of budget. There's a prestige/elitist attitude at ND (like Texas) that compels them to be among the best paying athletic departments in the country, from administrators down to staff - even part-timers. Without knowing what Steve-O makes at SMU, or what the AD makes up there, I bet he'd get a pretty serious bump in pay. Maybe double?

Aren't we Notre Dame South?

Even we don't cling to past glory as much as ND does.

mr. pony wrote:Aren't we Notre Dame South?

Oops, I've been telling everyone we're the USC of the south.

mr. pony wrote:Aren't we Notre Dame South?

no, we are the "Duke of Dallas," per Matt Doherty

RGV Pony wrote:

mr. pony wrote:Aren't we Notre Dame South?

no, we are the "Duke of Dallas," per Matt Doherty

"Duck of Dallas, I say"

BleedingRed+Blue wrote:

SMU Football Blog wrote:It isn't going to come down to money. That being said, I seriously doubt Orsini would make significantly more at ND than he is making now. SMU pays very well. For exaple, Copeland pulled out the NC State AD search when he learned he would have to take a pay cut.

That may be, but I seriously doubt Notre Dame and NC State have the same kind of budget. There's a prestige/elitist attitude at ND (like Texas) that compels them to be among the best paying athletic departments in the country, from administrators down to staff - even part-timers. Without knowing what Steve-O makes at SMU, or what the AD makes up there, I bet he'd get a pretty serious bump in pay. Maybe double?

FYI, the highest paid AD in the Big XII is at Kansas making $450k per year. Ohio State's AD makes around that much. Orsini is already over $300k. ND, aside from Weiss, has been pretty cheep when it comes to athletics. They are not going to set the bar for AD salaries.

You think DeLoss Dodds doesn't make more than the Kansas AD? It might be written differently, like a bonus for getting out of bed in the morning, but he's got to be making more than a half a million, don't you think?

those salaries do seem low for running the big programs involving or approaching 100 Million Dollar + budgets like the UTs, NDs, Michigans, Ohio Sts of the world

SMUtrojanFAN wrote:

mr. pony wrote:Aren't we Notre Dame South?

Oops, I've been telling everyone we're the USC of the south.

that's exactly what i tell everybody too. without the football though

I alwasy thought we were the Harvard of the South.